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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Actually its closer to 75 percent subsidized meals at our schools.

We is poor and need some food.

One car picks up kids and lunches......only has one window.

Does it say FREE KITTENS on the side or am I picturing this wrong?


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The food is already paid for, much is already in the kitchens and the rest is being delivered anyway. They do long term contracts with food suppliers and much of it is government surplus. The staff is being paid regardless. If they don't give it away it will be trashed. Our local system does it Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. My son-in-law takes my 3 grandkids each of those days and they get enough to feed the whole family for a day or 2 each time. It is drive through style, they bring a bag of food out in a paper sack. They've been getting 1/2 gal of milk, (all in the 1/2 pint containers), a loaf of bread and other stuff that is not cooked. It is meant to take home and cook.

There are several other places where free food is available, or has been. I'm guessing some local restaurants have reached the point where they have food in stock that needs to be eaten or trashed soon. It is good PR to just give it away. Everything in GA is take out or drive thru only now anyway. Some restaurants work well like that, others not so. All Waffle House's of all places is closed until further notice.


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Breakfast and lunch meals at our county's schools have been free for all students for a good while now, regardless income status.

During this shutdown and parents/guardians so choose free meals are available either by pick up outside school entrance or home delivery via school bus.

I believe they've gone to a whole weeks worth of meals delivered or picked up on one day a week here now.








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Originally Posted by Morewood
I grew up on ketchup sandwiches and warm hose water.

Kids these days are soft.



I grew up on ketchup sandwiches too but we had relatively cool spring water to drink although it was occasionally filtered through mouse hair. Maybe that's why we looked forward to Kool aid season each year.

I ate the ketchup sandwiches by choice to avoid the vegetables Dad grew in the garden. I hated that stuff when I was young and still do sixty odd years later.

Mom would say there was a funny smell in the water and we would go to the spring and take the cover off to find dead mice or a dead snake floating around on the surface. Dad would dip out all the water he could while it was still seeping in in the nature of springs and then he would scrub the field stone incasement with bleach and baking soda. We didn't think much about it, at least we had water and it was a step up from river water.

We all grew up healthy and seem to have remained that way for the most part.

A lot of our childhood would be considered abuse today I suppose.

The current generation is soft in many ways but they are becoming hardened to things we never imagined.

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I have been poor enough to sneak into a high school cafeteria for a $1.10 lunch. Before Columbine it was easy.

Can’t say I ever want to be that poor again. Lol. The food was worse than I remembered!


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Our local schools are providing 2 bagged meals per day for the whole week. It has to be picked up on Monday for the entire week. This is for any child in the county, they don't have to attend school there. All of the schools are doing it. There isn't an income basis for this.....during normal school there's a free lunch/breakfast based on income level....this one is for everyone.

A lot of the kids don't get fed at home. They eat 2 meals a day at school and that's it. You can argue the pro/con of not feeding them, economics, etc. I won't let a stray dog starve, I might shoot it if needed but I won't watch one starve.....I don't have much of a problem with feeding kids.

I do find it a little funny that some would call the folks in line with nice cars freeloaders......it's tax $ from folks like them that's paying for all of the meals. "WTF are those freeloaders thinking?...like they should be entitled to the stuff they are providing to be used for the entitled!!!!"

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I had just graduated with a masters, went to work for a big tech company. We bought a 1500 ft^2 house, were driving junky cars, paying a ton of taxes and paying off student loans. The people across the street had cash jobs, drove brand new cars, and collected every kind of welfare known to man, including school lunches for all their spawn. Maddening.

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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Since the shut down our school kitchen has been open and serving breakfast and lunch meals to the kids.


Not sure how it works.....but I think you were supposed to sign up and then wait outside for someone to bring the food to you.


I assume its bag lunch types of things. Probably no soup!


We did not participate. We live out of town....and it seemed silly to drive in to "save" money on cafeteria food.



For what ever reason.....the district has decided to employ the buses and drivers in a school food program for all the rural kids.


They are going to be delivering food to your bus stop. Not just the kids in school......every child in the house hold.


Also, a teacher will be riding shotgun to help deliver food and to hand out and collect school assignments.


Its a weird....brave new world!














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Originally Posted by TwoEyedJack
I had just graduated with a masters, went to work for a big tech company. We bought a 1500 ft^2 house, were driving junky cars, paying a ton of taxes and paying off student loans. The people across the street had cash jobs, drove brand new cars, and collected every kind of welfare known to man, including school lunches for all their spawn. Maddening.


congrats you're a smart man. I think the majority of Americans, who have been living and spending above their needs, will be in for a real hurt within a few months. Shaking my head for years that people weren't preparing for this and even those with high incomes.

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